Re: HIS ASCENDS (sense?) OF HOPE?
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Feast day of St. LONGINUS: March 15 (west) & Oct. 16 (east)
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. Latimer & *HUGH* Ridley burned at stake Oct. 16, 1555
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______________ PHILIP Herbert born Oct. 16, 1584
.
. Philip Herbert, 4th Earl of Pembroke
. (& 1st Earl of Montgomery), born 16th October 1584,
. mar 1stly Susan de Vere 27th Dec 1604.
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________ 1609 Sonnets Dedication:
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______ TO THE ONLIE BEGETTER OF
______ *THESE* INSUING *SONNETS*
_______ Mr W H *ALL* HAPPINESSE
__________ AND THAT ETERNITIE
_______________ PROMISED
__________________ *BY*
_______ OUR *EVER*-LIVING POET
_____________ WISHETH
_________ *THE* WELL-WISHING
____________ ADVENTURER IN
_______________ SETTING
_______________ *FORTH* T. *T*
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Maev <M.Q.at....@googlemail.com> wrote:
> ____________________________
> Sir Francis Vere (1560-1609) and his brother *HORACE* (1565-1635)
> are buried in the chapel of St John the EvANGEList in the Abbey.
> Francis has a large monument of alabaster & black marble showing him
> lying on a carved rush mattress in civilian dress under a slab on
> which is laid out his suit of armour. The slab is supported on the
> shoulders of four life-sized knights in armour who kneel at each
> corner. The monument seems to have been inspired by that of
> Count Engelbert II of Nassau-Dillenburg in the church at Breda.
> Memorial tomb of Engelbert II of Nassau
> http://tinyurl.com/yhyuckr
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> The Latin inscription can be translated:
> To Francis Vere (1560-1609), Knight,
> son of Geoffrey and nephew of John earl of Oxford,
> the English governor of Brill and Portsmouth, chief
> leader of forces in Belgium, died 28 August 1609,
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> *in the 54th year of his age* [sic!].
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Feast day of St. LONGINUS: March 15 (west) & Oct. 16 (east)
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__ [Elizabeth's husband Edward de Vere died at age 54! ]
. Latimer & *HUGH* Ridley burned at stake Oct. 16, 1555
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______________ “A Funerall Poeme" Oct. 16, 1609
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________ http://1609chronology.blogspot.com/
Robert Sean Brazil wrote:
<<On October 16, 1609, a book was registered at the Stationers’ Hall,
called, “A Funerall Poeme. Upon the death of the most worthie and true
souldier, Sir Francis Vere, Knight. Captaine of Portsmouth, &c. L.
Gouernour of his Maiesties Cautionarie Towne of Briell in Holland,
&c.” The author was Cyril Tourneur (c.1575-1626) whose father,
Captain Richard Turner, served in Holland at the same time as
Sir Francis Vere and Sir Horatio Vere. We have evidence that
Cyril himself saw some service there in 1613. Prior to that
it is assumed he was living in London.
Tourneur has left us with a very limited set of works: one long poem,
The Transformed Metamorphosis (1600), is often described as deeply
imitative of Shakespeare. He wrote elegies for Sir Francis Vere (1609)
and for Prince Henry, the doomed Stuart heir (1613). He is credited
with only two plays, The Revenger's Tragedy (1607) and The Atheist's
Tragedy (1611); Revenger, however, is now often credited to Middleton,
leaving Atheist’s as the principal “certain” dramatic work of
Tourneur.
The 1609 elegy to Francis Vere begins with a one-page dedication. It
is ambiguously written and may be designed to honor Francis, or his
nephew, Henry, the 18th Earl of Oxford, or the 1604-deceased 17th Earl
of Oxford. This dedication has never been discussed before, not by
Miller, the Ogburns, Chiljan, or myself in previous articles. The
principal source for finding and identifying dedications is the book,
Index of dedications and commendatory verses in English books before
1641, by Franklin B. Williams, 1962. In that book, Williams lists
this opening dedication in Tourneur’s 1609 elegy as pertaining to
Henry, 18th Earl of Oxford. My thinking at the moment is that while
Henry is probably the obscure but overt dedicatee, his father,
Edward de Vere (17th Earl) is, in fact, the covert dedicatee.
Consider the layout of the dedication. There are three sections, each
in the shape of a “V” or inverted triangle. This is the exact same
shape as the famous dedication to the 1609 Sonnets. The number of
lines in each triangle differs. In the Sonnets, the sequence is the
famous 6, 2, 4. Here we have 3, 4, 5. Add ‘em up. Each dedication
has twelve lines! Is it possible that Tourneur is drawing readers’
attentions to a similarity? Consider that the typesetter has gone
out of his way to stretch the last section into five lines and has
played with the justification of letters (kerning) to create
the three triangles:>>
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__________ DEDICATED TO *HIS*
____________ LIVING MEMORIE;
____________ WHICH *ASCENDS*
____________ TO THE INHERENT
________ HONOVR *OF* THE HEROYQVE
________ *HOPE* OF NOBILITIE, THE
__________ *EARLE* OF OXFORD, &c.
_______ FROM *WHOSE* NOBLE-FAMILIE ,
__________ THIS *IMMORTALL* WOR-
__________ THIE , HATH THE *HO-
______________ NOVR* TO BE
________________ Descended.
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__________ DEDICATED *TO* HIS
____________ LIVING *MEMORIE*;
____________ WHICH ASCENDS
____________ TO *THE* INHERENT
________ HONOVR OF THE *HEROYQVE*
________ HOPE OF *NOBILITIE* , THE
__________ EARLE OF *OXFORD* , &c.
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_____ *HIS ASCENDS (sense?) OF HOPE:*
__ *EARLE, WHOSE IMMORTALL HONOVR TO MEMORIE*
_____ *THE HEROYQVE NOBILITIE OXFORD*
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. Measure Fore Measure > Act III, scene I
ISABELLA: The *SENSE OF DEATH* is most in apprehension;
. And the poor beetle, that we tread upon,
. In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
. As when a giant dies.
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. <= 9 =>
D E D I C A T E D
T O H I S L I V I
N G M E M O R I E
W H _*I*_ C H A S C E
N D _*S*_ T O T H E I
N H _*E*_ R E N T H O
N O _*V*_ R O F T H E
H E _*R*_ O Y Q V E H
O P _*E*_ O F N O B I
L I T I E T H E E
A R L E O F O X F
O R D & c F R O M
W H O S E N O B L
E F A M I L I E T
H I S I M M O R T
A L L W O R T H I
E H A T H T H E H
O N O V R T O B E
D e s c e n d e d
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*I(e) SEVRE* : *I SEPARATE* (French)
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*I SEVRE*
*I SERVE*
*IS VERE*
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*SEVER* , v. t. [OF. sevrer, severer, to separate, F. sevrer to wean]
1. To separate, as one from another; to cut off from something;
to divide; to part in any way, especially by violence, as
by cutting, rending, etc.; as, to sever the head from the body.
'The angels shall come *FORTH* , and
*SEVER* the wicked from among the just.' - Matt. xiii. 49.
2. To cut or break open or apart; to divide into parts;
to cut through; to disjoin; as, to sever the arm or leg.
'Our state can not be *SEVERed* ; we are one.' - Milton.
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" *I SERVE* HER Majestie, & *I AM THAT I AM* . "
- Edward de Vere (October, 1584)
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. A Midsummer Night's Dream > Act II, scene I
.
Fairy: And *I SERVE* the fairy queen,
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. Twelfth Night > Act II, scene III
.
MALVOLIO: Sir Toby, I must be round with you. My lady bade
. me tell you, that, though she harbours you as her
. kinsman, she's nothing allied to your disorders. If
. you can *SEPARATE* yourself and your misdemeanors, you
. are welcome to the house; if not, an it would please
. you to take leave of her, she is VERy WILLing to bid
. you farewell.
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. Act II, scene V
MALVOLIO: Why, she may command me:
. *I SERVE* her; she is my lady.
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. The Tempest > Act III, scene I
FERDINAND: The mistress which *I SERVE* quickens what's dead
. And makes my labours pleasures: O, she is
. Ten times more gentle than her father's crabbed,
. And he's composed of harshness.
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. Troilus and Cressida > Act II, scene I
THERSITES: *I sERVE* thee not.
AJAX: Well, GO TO, GO TO.
THERSITES: *I sERVE* here voluntarily.
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<<MINERVA BRITANNA: dedicated to THE PRINCE of Wales Henry Stuart,
whose motto *ICH DIEN* Peacham anagrammatises as *HIC INDE* >>
*INDE* : (Latin) for that REASON, from THERE, thence, THEREafter.
THERSITES: "I SERVE HERE voluntarily.
________ ("IS VERE HERE" voluntarily.)
_____ *ICH DIEN HIER* (German)
_____ *ICH DIEN EHRE* (German: "I SERVE HONOUR")
_____ *HIC INDE HERE* (Latin: "THEREafter: YESTERDAY")
_____ *HINC INDE* : "HERE & THERE"
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. Edward de VERE died on *St. JOHN's day* 1604 and
was buried in the church of *St. AUGUSTINE* in Hackney.
.
Sir Francis VERE died on *St. AUGUSTINE's day* 1609 and
was buried in the chapel of *St. JOHN* in Westminster Abbey.
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http://www.oxford.shakespeare.com/drk/phaeton/Oxmyths_Oxford.pdf
.
MYTH: Oxford was buried in a stone coffin in the floor
of Westminster Abbey's Chapel of St. John the EvANGEList.
.
The stone coffin in the floor of the Chapel of St. John
the EvANGEList near the monument to Oxford's cousins,
Francis & *HORATIO* Vere, was opened in 1913.
It contained the bones of an *ECCLESIASTIC* .
*ECCLESIASTIC* , a. [L. ecclesiasticus, Gr. ,
fr. an assembly of citizens called out by the crier; also,
the church, fr. called out, fr. to *call out* ; out + to call.]
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Edward de Vere *IS* certainly buried in Westminster Abbey.
This fact is *SO*
"intuitively obvious to the most casual observer" that
visitors to Westminster Abbey must get special permission
to visit the Chapel of St. John the *EvANGEList* ... else
the *TRUTH* would *call out* to all intelligent people:
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___ WHOSE NAME DOTH *DECK YS TOMBE*
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<<Sir Francis Vere (1560.1609) & his brother Horace (1565.1635)
are buried in the chapel of St John the EvANGEList in the Abbey.
Francis has a large monument of alabaster & black marble
showing him lying on a carved rush mattress in civilian
dress under a slab on which is laid out his suit of armour.
.
The slab is supported on the shoulders of
*four life.sized knights in armour*
who kneel at each corner.
.
http://tinyurl.com/96y9nx
http://www.shakespeares.sonnets.com/Images/vere01.JPG
Chapel of St. John the *evANGEList*
______ *evANGEList*
______ *ANGEL viste*
______ *ANGEL vesti*
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*vesti* : publish, herald, proclaim (Romanian)
*viste* : *views* (Italian)
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. This is CLEARLY the tomb of *HAM(l)ET*
. NOT that of some *Count ENGEL-BERT* :
.
http://www.westminster-abbey.org/library/burial/vere.htm
.
. *FORT(enbr)ASSE* : Let foure Captaines
. Beare Hamlet like a souldier to the stage,
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. *FORT(enbr)ASSE* : *PERHAPS* (Latin)
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. The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast *PERHAPS*.
.
. "Je m'en vais chercher un grand *PEUT-ÊTRE* ;
. tirez le rideau, la farce est jouée."
.
rABelais's last words. [From MOTTEUX, Life of rABelais]
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*HORATIO/HORACE* : Good night sweet prince:
. And flights of *ANGELS* sing thee to thy rest!
*ENGEL* : *ANGEL* (Danish, Dutch, German)
*ENGEL* : balk, bar, barrage, barricade, barrier, baulk, block, check,
clog, countercheck, counterwork, cramp, Crimp, dam, determent,
difficulty, discouragement, disincentive, drag, drawback, encumbrance,
entanglement, fence, handicap, hedge, hindrance, hobble, hold up,
holdback, hurdle, impediment, interference, let, obstacle,
obstruction, restraint, retardation, rub, shackles, slashing, snag,
stay, stick, stop, stumbling block, supersedeas, tie, trammel
(Turkish)
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____ *ENGELBErt* : *English Born*
____ *BEnENGELi* : *Son of England*
‘The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha, written
by Cid *HAMETE BEnENGELi*, an Arabical historiographer.’
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Shelton's Don Quixote, Part 1 The Second Book I
<<Being one day walking in the exchange of Toledo, a certain boy by
chance would have sold *DIVERS* old quires and scrolls of books to a
squire that walked up and down in that place, and I, being addicted to
read such scrolls, though I found them torn in the streets, borne away
by this my natural inclination, took one of the quires in my hand, and
perceived it to be written in Arabical characters, and seeing that,
although I knew the letters, yet could I not read the substance, I
looked about to view whether I could perceive any Moor turned Spaniard
thereabouts, that could read them; nor was it very difficult to find
there such an interpreter; for, if I had searched one of another
better and more ancient language, that place would easily afford him.
In fine, my good fortune presented one to me; to whom telling my
desire, and setting the book in his hand, he opened it, and, having
read a little therein, began to laugh. I demanded of him why he
laughed; and he answered, at that marginal note which the book had. I
bade him to expound it to me, and with that took him a little aside;
and he, continuing still his laughter, said: ‘There is written there,
on this margin, these words: “This Dulcinea of Toboso, so many times
spoken of in this history, had the best hand for powdering of porks of
any woman in all the Mancha.”’ When I heard it make mention of
Dulcinea of Toboso, I rested amazed and suspended, and imagined
forthwith that those quires contained the history of Don Quixote. With
this conceit I hastened him to read the beginning, which he did, and,
translating the Arabical into Spanish in a trice, he said that it
begun thus: ‘The History of Don Quixote of the Mancha, written by Cid
Hamete *BEnENGELi*, an Arabical historiographer.’>>
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Shelton's Don Quixote, Part 1 The Third Book
THE WISE Cid *Hamet BEnENGELi* recounteth that,
as soon as Don Quixote had taken leave of the goatherds.....
...omitting that Cid *Mahamet BEnENGELi* was a very exact
historiographer, and most curious in all things, as may be
gathered very well, seeing that those which are related being
so minute and trivial, he would not overslip them in silence.
CID *HAMET BEnENGELi*, an Arabic and Manchegan author, recounts,
in this most grave, lofty, divine, sweet conceited history, that,
after these discourses passed between
Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza...
Here Cardenio finished his large discourse and unfortunate and amorous
history; and just about the time that the curate was be-thinking
himself of some comfortable reasons to answer and persuade him, he
was suspended by a voice arrived to his hearing, which with pitiful
accents said what shall be recounted in the Fourth Part of this
narration; for in this very point the wise and most absolute
historiographer, Cid *Hamet BEnENGELi*,
finished the Third Book of this history.
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English kings and St John the EvANGEList
By Christopher Howse
Published: 26 Dec 2008 (Telegraph)
If you walk out of New Groombridge with the noonday sun at your back,
over the old sandstone bridge spanning the river Grom, you pass from
Sussex into Kent and all at once you see The Green, with, beyond,
an old brick walk beneath pollarded lime trees.
A frieze along the medieval stone screen before the shrine of St
Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey shows scenes from this
legend: the gift of the ring, the pilgrims' meeting with St John, and
their return of the ring to the astonished king at table.
These lively scenes in stone are invisible to the tourists who press
into the Abbey; the ring held by the king in the Wilton Diptych means
nothing to most visitors to the National Gallery. We have lost the
legends that explain the work of ancient craftsmen.
A similar effect of new ignorance explains the despoliation of the
chapel of St John the EvANGEList in Westminster Abbey. It had been
fitted out with elaborate carved screens by John Islip, elected
Abbot of Westminster in 1500. (The building work for which
he was responsible bears his rebus, the jesting emblem
of an eye and the slip of a fig tree.)
But when the hero of Quebec, General Wolfe, came to be commemorated in
1772 with one of the most colossal memorials in the Abbey, it was at
the expense of the carved southern screen of St John's chapel. It
could have been worse, for if Horace Walpole had not intervened,
Wolfe's cenotaph would have sat in the very sanctuary, by the
destruction of the fine medieval tomb of Aymer of Valence,
Earl of Pembroke.>>
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Maev <M.Q.at....@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> English kings and St John the EvANGEList
> By Christopher Howse
> A frieze along the medieval stone screen before the shrine of St
> Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey shows scenes from this
> legend: the gift of the ring, the pilgrims' meeting with St John,
> and their return of the ring to the astonished king at table.
> These lively scenes in stone are invisible to the tourists who press
> into the Abbey; the ring held by the king in the Wilton Diptych means
> nothing to most visitors to the National Gallery. We have lost the
> legends that explain the work of ancient craftsmen.
> A similar effect of new ignorance explains the despoliation of the
> chapel of St John the EvANGEList in Westminster Abbey. It had been
> fitted out with elaborate carved screens by John Islip, elected
> Abbot of Westminster in 1500. (The building work for which he was
> responsible bears his rebus, the jesting emblem of an eye
> and the slip of a fig tree.)
> But when the hero of Quebec, General Wolfe, came to be commemorated in
> 1772 with one of the most colossal memorials in the Abbey, it was at
> the expense of the carved southern screen of St John's chapel. It
> could have been worse, for if *HORACE* Walpole had not intervened,
> Wolfe's cenotaph would have sat in the very sanctuary, by the
> destruction of the fine medieval tomb of Aymer of Valence,
> Earl of Pembroke.
> http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherhowse/396536...
> ____________________________
> Sir Francis Vere (1560-1609) and his brother *HORACE* (1565-1635)
> are buried in the chapel of St John the EvANGEList in the Abbey.
> Francis has a large monument of alabaster and black marble showing him
> lying on a carved rush mattress in civilian dress under a slab on
> which is laid out his suit of armour. The slab is supported on the
> shoulders of four life-sized knights in armour who kneel at each
> corner. The monument seems to have been inspired by that of Count
> Engelbert II of Nassau-Dillenburg in the church at Breda.
> Memorial tomb of Engelbert II of Nassau
> http://tinyurl.com/yhyuckr
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> The Latin inscription can be translated:
> To Francis Vere (1560-1609), Knight,
> son of Geoffrey and nephew of John earl of Oxford,
> the English governor of Brill and Portsmouth, chief
> leader of forces in Belgium, died 28 August 1609,
> *in the 54th year of his age* [sic!].
.
__ [Elizabeth's husband Edward de Vere died at age 54! ]
.
> Elizabeth, his wife, in great sadness and sobbing with tears,
> placed this supreme monument to conjugal faith and love.
> His age, according to the inscription, is not the same as given in
> books. Geoffrey (a brother of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford) had
> four sons, John, Francis, Robert and *HORACE*, by Elizabeth Hardkyn
> of Essex. Francis was one of the greatest soldiers serving under
> Elizabeth I and distinguished himself at the Battle of Nieuport
> (1600) and during the defence of Ostend against the Spanish.
> He married Elizabeth, daughter of John Dent of London.
> *HORACE* was created Baron Vere of Tilbury for his excellent military
> services to the country. He married in 1607 Mary, daughter of Sir
> William Tracy, and had five daughters but no male heir so the
> title became extinct. *HORACE has no memorial in the Abbey* .
> A photograph of the monument can be purchased from the Abbey Library.
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Sir Francis Vere and Horace Vere
Sir Francis Vere (1560-1609) and his brother Horace (1565-1635)
are buried in the chapel of St John the EvANGEList in the Abbey.
Francis has a large monument of alabaster and black marble showing him
lying on a carved rush mattress in civilian dress under a slab on
which is laid out his suit of armour. The slab is supported on the
shoulders of four life-sized knights in armour who kneel at each
corner. The monument seems to have been inspired by that of Count
*ENGELbert* II of Nassau-Dillenburg in the church at Breda.
The Latin inscription can be translated:
To Francis Vere, Knight, son of Geoffrey and nephew of John earl of
Oxford, governor of Brill and Portsmouth, chief leader of the English
forces in Belgium, died 28 August 1609, in the 54th year of his age.
Elizabeth, his wife, in great sadness and sobbing with tears,
placed this supreme monument to conjugal faith and love.
His age, according to the inscription, is not the same as given in
books. Geoffrey (a brother of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford) had
four sons, John, Francis, Robert and Horace, by Elizabeth Hardkyn of
Essex. Francis was one of the greatest soldiers serving under
Elizabeth I and distinguished himself at the Battle of Nieuport (1600)
and during the defence of Ostend against the Spanish. He married
Elizabeth, daughter of John Dent of London.
Horace was created Baron Vere of Tilbury for his excellent military
services to the country. He married in 1607 Mary, daughter of Sir
William Tracy, and had five daughters but no male heir so the
title became extinct. Horace has no memorial in the Abbey.
http://tinyurl.com/ycraswu
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Art Neuendorffer